Ann Basart, who appeared in dozens of films as a child billed as Ann E. Todd in the 1930s and ’40s and was a regular on 1950s sitcom The Stu Erwin Show, has died. She was 88. Basart died February 7 in Northern California; she had struggled with dementia for seven years, but no formal cause of death was given.
Born Ann Todd Phillips on August 26, 1931, in Denver, she was raised by her maternal grandparents in Southern California, where they steered her into acting. From 1938-51, she racked more nearly 40 movie credits including Destry Rides Again, Brigham Young, How Green Was My Valley, All This and Heaven Too, Kings Row and The Jolson Story.
During her film career, Basart appeared opposite such top stars of the era as Ingrid Bergman, Shirley Temple, James Stewart, Bette Davis, Barbara Stanwyck and Marlene Dietrich. A distant cousin of first lady Mary Todd Lincoln, she added...
Born Ann Todd Phillips on August 26, 1931, in Denver, she was raised by her maternal grandparents in Southern California, where they steered her into acting. From 1938-51, she racked more nearly 40 movie credits including Destry Rides Again, Brigham Young, How Green Was My Valley, All This and Heaven Too, Kings Row and The Jolson Story.
During her film career, Basart appeared opposite such top stars of the era as Ingrid Bergman, Shirley Temple, James Stewart, Bette Davis, Barbara Stanwyck and Marlene Dietrich. A distant cousin of first lady Mary Todd Lincoln, she added...
- 2/17/2020
- by Erik Pedersen
- Deadline Film + TV
Feeling festive today but not quite ready for Christmas? Celebrate one of these anniversaries!
1805 Joseph Smith Jr, founder of the Mormon Church is born in Vermont. Here's a very random piece of trivia: Outside of the very early movie Brigham Young (1940) about his successor with Vincent Price in the Joseph Smith role, the only actually famous actor to ever play him is Dean Cain of Lois & Clark fame in a movie called September Dawn (2007)? It's kind of hard to draw a line connecting Vincent Price and Dean Cain otherwise, right?
1867 Madame Cj Walker, cosmetics mogul and the first black female millionaire in America, is born in Louisiana. Where's her biopic, Hollywood? History has more than just Great White Man stories.
1887 Underappreciated director John Cromwell who guided Bette Davis's breakthrough role in Of Human Bondage , and the all female wonders of Caged was born in Ohio. One more Bette related anniversary after the jump.
1805 Joseph Smith Jr, founder of the Mormon Church is born in Vermont. Here's a very random piece of trivia: Outside of the very early movie Brigham Young (1940) about his successor with Vincent Price in the Joseph Smith role, the only actually famous actor to ever play him is Dean Cain of Lois & Clark fame in a movie called September Dawn (2007)? It's kind of hard to draw a line connecting Vincent Price and Dean Cain otherwise, right?
1867 Madame Cj Walker, cosmetics mogul and the first black female millionaire in America, is born in Louisiana. Where's her biopic, Hollywood? History has more than just Great White Man stories.
1887 Underappreciated director John Cromwell who guided Bette Davis's breakthrough role in Of Human Bondage , and the all female wonders of Caged was born in Ohio. One more Bette related anniversary after the jump.
- 12/23/2016
- by NATHANIEL R
- FilmExperience
[[tmz:video id="0_w7nr3pcb"]] Steve Young has a message for Colin Kaepernick now that he's been named starting Qb of the 49ers again ... You Better Lose Yourself In The Music, The Moment, You Own It, You Better Never Let It Go. You Only Get One Shot. Do Not Miss Your Chance To Blow!!! Okay, he didn't say that exactly ... but that's the essence of it. "I want him to take this opportunity and stay with the 49ers." There's more...
- 10/11/2016
- by TMZ Staff
- TMZ
Exclusive: Hyperion Media Group has acquired Porter Rockwell, a script from Holy Rollers and Affluenza screenwriter Antonio Macia. The Western action-adventure drama is based on Rockwell, the real-life gunslinging bodyguard of Mormon Church founder Joseph Smith (and later Brigham Young) who was known as the “Destroying Angel of Mormondom” for his violent ways. The story is set in the Utah territory during the mid-1800s gold rush. Rockwell, who became a U.S. Deputy…...
- 6/30/2016
- Deadline
After such a major final confrontation with the Swede on Hell on Wheels Season 5 Episode 8, it would only make sense that Cullen would be heading back to the railroad.
But without his family?
Leaving them on Hell on Wheels Season 5 Episode 9 certainly wrapped up that storyline.
I’m Ok with how things with Naomi turned out, even though I wasn’t a fan of how her relationship with Cullen began.
Cullen having sex with Naomi on Hell on Wheels Season 3 Episode 2 just felt out of character for him, and then there was a soap opera reveal that she was pregnant with his baby on Hell on Wheels Season 3 Episode 10.
Honestly, Hell on Wheels Season 3 was a bit of a mess, but the series had just lost its showrunners and was trying to find a way to redirect itself. It was definitely a transition period but not the best way to...
But without his family?
Leaving them on Hell on Wheels Season 5 Episode 9 certainly wrapped up that storyline.
I’m Ok with how things with Naomi turned out, even though I wasn’t a fan of how her relationship with Cullen began.
Cullen having sex with Naomi on Hell on Wheels Season 3 Episode 2 just felt out of character for him, and then there was a soap opera reveal that she was pregnant with his baby on Hell on Wheels Season 3 Episode 10.
Honestly, Hell on Wheels Season 3 was a bit of a mess, but the series had just lost its showrunners and was trying to find a way to redirect itself. It was definitely a transition period but not the best way to...
- 6/19/2016
- by Sean McKenna
- TVfanatic
Neil Labute aims at the angst and entitlement of yuppies like a kid with a magnifying glass, torturing ants. He writes and directs comedies where you're not really laughing: you're choking on your own discomfort as he pokes and prods the sexual crises of the bored, the rich, the spoiled, the middle-classed. Which is to say many of us. Cuckolds, man-babies and emotional eunuchs are some of the types you'll encounter in Labute's films, which are brazenly, specifically about the facade of the American hegemony, and the fictions it is barely concealing. You'd never known from his savagely charming and scabrous comedies that Labute is a lapsed Mormon who, before getting kicked out of the Church of Lds in the late-1990s for a deemed-to-be offensive off-Broadway play, started at Brigham Young, where he met one of his earliest screen co-conspirators, actor Aaron Eckhart. In Labute's cruelly funny film debut...
- 9/1/2015
- by Ryan Lattanzio
- Thompson on Hollywood
Hell on Wheels, Season 4, Episode 13, “Further West”
Written by John Wirth and John Romano
Directed by Adam Davidson
Airs Saturdays at 9pm (Et) on AMC
“I’m going home, Doc”
“Home? This is your home”
Hell on Wheels’ fourth season has been complicated. While mostly disappointing, it has featured moments of great emotional depth and viewers have had to say goodbye to Elam (Common) and Ruth (Kasha Kropinski) in episodes that were deeply effecting and have changed the course of the show and its main character Cullen Bohannon (Anson Mount) indefinitely.
With nothing seemingly tying him to Cheyenne, and Ruth’s insistence that he go to his wife and son and make it right, Cullen quits his job on the railroad. It’s an odd choice, considering everything he’s given up for it, what and who he has lost. Either he’s running from his guilt and the haunting...
Written by John Wirth and John Romano
Directed by Adam Davidson
Airs Saturdays at 9pm (Et) on AMC
“I’m going home, Doc”
“Home? This is your home”
Hell on Wheels’ fourth season has been complicated. While mostly disappointing, it has featured moments of great emotional depth and viewers have had to say goodbye to Elam (Common) and Ruth (Kasha Kropinski) in episodes that were deeply effecting and have changed the course of the show and its main character Cullen Bohannon (Anson Mount) indefinitely.
With nothing seemingly tying him to Cheyenne, and Ruth’s insistence that he go to his wife and son and make it right, Cullen quits his job on the railroad. It’s an odd choice, considering everything he’s given up for it, what and who he has lost. Either he’s running from his guilt and the haunting...
- 11/23/2014
- by Tressa
- SoundOnSight
Written by John Romano
Directed by Michael Nankin
Airs Saturdays at 9pm (Et) on AMC
“Elam Ferguson”, the seventh episode of Hell on Wheels season four changed the course of the series. Losing one of the original main characters, Elam (Common), at the hands of Cullen (Anson Mount) was shocking, devastating, and redefining for Cullen. There will obviously be repercussions. Cullen could potentially lose his alliance and friendship with the African-American community he works with, Eva (Robin McLeavy), could turn on him, and his wife, already fragile and insecure, now looks at Cullen with fear.
“Under Color of Law” handles the aftermath of Elam’s death carefully. Eva survives her pain by helping Elam’s hostage, Charlotte (Sara Canning), and drinking. Cullen survives by smothering the painful memories and pushing Naomi (MacKenzie Porter) away. It’s obvious that he’s in pain and perhaps he refuses to acknowledge Naomi because...
Directed by Michael Nankin
Airs Saturdays at 9pm (Et) on AMC
“Elam Ferguson”, the seventh episode of Hell on Wheels season four changed the course of the series. Losing one of the original main characters, Elam (Common), at the hands of Cullen (Anson Mount) was shocking, devastating, and redefining for Cullen. There will obviously be repercussions. Cullen could potentially lose his alliance and friendship with the African-American community he works with, Eva (Robin McLeavy), could turn on him, and his wife, already fragile and insecure, now looks at Cullen with fear.
“Under Color of Law” handles the aftermath of Elam’s death carefully. Eva survives her pain by helping Elam’s hostage, Charlotte (Sara Canning), and drinking. Cullen survives by smothering the painful memories and pushing Naomi (MacKenzie Porter) away. It’s obvious that he’s in pain and perhaps he refuses to acknowledge Naomi because...
- 9/22/2014
- by Tressa
- SoundOnSight
Hell on Wheels, Episode 5, Season 4, “Life’s a Mystery”
Written by Mark Richard and Thomas Brady
Directed by David Straiton
Airs Saturdays at 9pm (Et) on AMC
“Wouldn’t be wise to kick a man while he’s down- he’s liable to kick back”
Last week’s episode of Hell on Wheels, “Reckoning”, was a slow and disappointing entry. There were great moments but given how exceptional the first three episodes of the season were, “Reckoning” left much to be desired. “Life’s a Mystery” is better but it’s also very heavy-handed and uneven.
This episode has an unusual structure with a campy and rather unnecessary opening set in Juarez, Mexico. While stylish, the whole thing feels out of place. Grit and realism have always been what’s made Hell on Wheels special, so this hyper and bloody opening, complete with slow motion, doesn’t feel like Hell on Wheels.
Written by Mark Richard and Thomas Brady
Directed by David Straiton
Airs Saturdays at 9pm (Et) on AMC
“Wouldn’t be wise to kick a man while he’s down- he’s liable to kick back”
Last week’s episode of Hell on Wheels, “Reckoning”, was a slow and disappointing entry. There were great moments but given how exceptional the first three episodes of the season were, “Reckoning” left much to be desired. “Life’s a Mystery” is better but it’s also very heavy-handed and uneven.
This episode has an unusual structure with a campy and rather unnecessary opening set in Juarez, Mexico. While stylish, the whole thing feels out of place. Grit and realism have always been what’s made Hell on Wheels special, so this hyper and bloody opening, complete with slow motion, doesn’t feel like Hell on Wheels.
- 9/1/2014
- by Tressa
- SoundOnSight
BFI launches campaign to find missing film featuring Sherlock Holmes.
The BFI has launched a campaign to find a copy of the first feature film featuring Sherlock Holmes.
Silent film A Study in Scarlet, directed by George Pearson, was released in autumn 1914.
The work is an adaptation of Sir Arthur Conan Doyle’s story of the same name, which shows a fictional murder during Brigham Young’s trek across America with his Mormon followers.
The film was shot on location at Worton Hall studios in the Summer of 1914. Cheddar Gorge in Somerset and Southport Sands in Merseyside stood in for the Rocky Mountains and the Utah plains.
Pearson’s second Holmes film, The Valley of Fear (1916), starring H.A. Saintsbury, is also missing.
Bryony Dixon, curator, silent film, BFI National Archive said: “Every archivist dreams of finding lost films. But this is a film of great importance. Sherlock Holmes is internationally renowned as a great detective. It would be...
The BFI has launched a campaign to find a copy of the first feature film featuring Sherlock Holmes.
Silent film A Study in Scarlet, directed by George Pearson, was released in autumn 1914.
The work is an adaptation of Sir Arthur Conan Doyle’s story of the same name, which shows a fictional murder during Brigham Young’s trek across America with his Mormon followers.
The film was shot on location at Worton Hall studios in the Summer of 1914. Cheddar Gorge in Somerset and Southport Sands in Merseyside stood in for the Rocky Mountains and the Utah plains.
Pearson’s second Holmes film, The Valley of Fear (1916), starring H.A. Saintsbury, is also missing.
Bryony Dixon, curator, silent film, BFI National Archive said: “Every archivist dreams of finding lost films. But this is a film of great importance. Sherlock Holmes is internationally renowned as a great detective. It would be...
- 8/15/2014
- ScreenDaily
BFI launches campaign to find missing film featuring Sherlock Holmes.
The BFI has launched a campaign to find a copy of the first feature film featuring Sherlock Holmes.
Silent film A Study in Scarlet, directed by George Pearson, was released in autumn 1914.
The work is an adaptation of Sir Arthur Conan Doyle’s story of the same name, which shows a fictional murder during Brigham Young’s trek across America with his Mormon followers.
The film was shot on location at Worton Hall studios in the Summer of 1914. Cheddar Gorge in Somerset and Southport Sands in Merseyside stood in for the Rocky Mountains and the Utah plains.
Pearson’s second Holmes film, The Valley of Fear (1916), starring H.A. Saintsbury, is also missing.
Bryony Dixon, curator, silent film, BFI National Archive said: “Every archivist dreams of finding lost films. But this is a film of great importance. Sherlock Holmes is internationally renowned as a great detective. It would be...
The BFI has launched a campaign to find a copy of the first feature film featuring Sherlock Holmes.
Silent film A Study in Scarlet, directed by George Pearson, was released in autumn 1914.
The work is an adaptation of Sir Arthur Conan Doyle’s story of the same name, which shows a fictional murder during Brigham Young’s trek across America with his Mormon followers.
The film was shot on location at Worton Hall studios in the Summer of 1914. Cheddar Gorge in Somerset and Southport Sands in Merseyside stood in for the Rocky Mountains and the Utah plains.
Pearson’s second Holmes film, The Valley of Fear (1916), starring H.A. Saintsbury, is also missing.
Bryony Dixon, curator, silent film, BFI National Archive said: “Every archivist dreams of finding lost films. But this is a film of great importance. Sherlock Holmes is internationally renowned as a great detective. It would be...
- 8/15/2014
- ScreenDaily
Students from Brigham Young, Columbia, Stanford, the Art Institute of Jacksonville and the University of Television and Film in Munich have won gold medals at the 41st Student Academy Awards, the Academy announced on Saturday night at a ceremony in West Hollywood. The awards were presented by actors Demian Bichir, Adrian Grenier and Nate Parker, and by the “Frozen” team of writer-directors Jennifer Lee and Chris Buck and producer Peter Del Vecho. Bichir lauded the winning films as being “the real thing,” while Parker commented, “ said, ‘Do you want to come and present this award?’ I said, ‘Absolutely....
- 6/8/2014
- by Steve Pond
- The Wrap
Geraldo explains that “cocksucking faggot” isn’t a slur, how Zac Efron really broke his jaw, Richard Branson boycotts Uganda over gay laws
Queen Elizabeth II has granted war hero Alan Turing a posthumous pardon under Royal Prerogative of Mercy. Turing cracked the Enigma code and dramatically shortened the war. He was arrested for gross indecency in 1952 for his relationship with a man, and later killed himself after being sentenced to chemical castration.
U.S. District Judge Robert Shelby has denied the state of Utah’s request for a stay of his decision legalizing marriage equality in the state. The Attorney General has filed for another stay with the 10th Circuit, and this request will be heard, but the outcome and the timeline are uncertain.
Meanwhile, in something I wasn’t expecting to see, the Boy Scouts, wearing rainbow neckerchiefs delivered pizza to same-sex couples waiting in line for marriage licenses.
Queen Elizabeth II has granted war hero Alan Turing a posthumous pardon under Royal Prerogative of Mercy. Turing cracked the Enigma code and dramatically shortened the war. He was arrested for gross indecency in 1952 for his relationship with a man, and later killed himself after being sentenced to chemical castration.
U.S. District Judge Robert Shelby has denied the state of Utah’s request for a stay of his decision legalizing marriage equality in the state. The Attorney General has filed for another stay with the 10th Circuit, and this request will be heard, but the outcome and the timeline are uncertain.
Meanwhile, in something I wasn’t expecting to see, the Boy Scouts, wearing rainbow neckerchiefs delivered pizza to same-sex couples waiting in line for marriage licenses.
- 12/24/2013
- by Ed Kennedy
- The Backlot
Former Oakland Raiders and Dallas Cowboys football player Todd Christensen has died at a Utah hospital due to complications from surgery, Brigham Young University and several media outlets reported on Wednesday. The 57-year-old had battled liver disease and other serious illnesses, the Salt Lake Tribune reported. “Todd Christensen passed away this morning due to complications from surgery,” the athletics department at Brigham Young, his alma mater, said in a Twitter post. See photos: Hollywood’s Notable Deaths of 2013 Christensen, who later became a sports commentator for NBC and the Mountain West Sports Network, was best known as a tight end for the Oakland Raiders,...
- 11/14/2013
- by Reuters
- The Wrap
Here is last week’s caption pic winner. This week’s caption pic is at the bottom of the page.
Thanks to everyone for participating! The winner is …
“Republicans’ worst marriage nightmare comes true.”
Thanks to Zam for this week’s winning caption!
(source)
Weekend Birthdays! Cam Gigandet (above) is 31, Lesley Ann Warren is 67, Angela Bassett is 55, Steve Carrell is 51, Mark Salling is 31, Madeleine Stowe is 55, Sean Penn is 53, and Belinda Carlisle is 55. Here is my favorite solo Belinda single.
U.S. Olympic Committee Clarifies: Russian Law Is “Inconsistent With” Olympic Principles. Okay, so now what?
Former San Francisco 49ers Quarterback Steve Young (who is a direct descendant of Brigham Young) and his wife will be the keynote speakers in Salt Lake City at next month’s convention of gay Mormons.
Russian pole vaulter Yelena Isinbayeva: My anti-gay comments have been ‘misunderstood’. Translation: “I’ve got to backtrack at Olympian...
Thanks to everyone for participating! The winner is …
“Republicans’ worst marriage nightmare comes true.”
Thanks to Zam for this week’s winning caption!
(source)
Weekend Birthdays! Cam Gigandet (above) is 31, Lesley Ann Warren is 67, Angela Bassett is 55, Steve Carrell is 51, Mark Salling is 31, Madeleine Stowe is 55, Sean Penn is 53, and Belinda Carlisle is 55. Here is my favorite solo Belinda single.
U.S. Olympic Committee Clarifies: Russian Law Is “Inconsistent With” Olympic Principles. Okay, so now what?
Former San Francisco 49ers Quarterback Steve Young (who is a direct descendant of Brigham Young) and his wife will be the keynote speakers in Salt Lake City at next month’s convention of gay Mormons.
Russian pole vaulter Yelena Isinbayeva: My anti-gay comments have been ‘misunderstood’. Translation: “I’ve got to backtrack at Olympian...
- 8/16/2013
- by snicks
- The Backlot
After all of the anticipation and hype, the first round of the 2013 NFL Draft finally came and went.
It was hard to gauge how the draft was going to go because for the first time in a few years, no pick was a sure lock.
For months, everyone thought the Kansas City Chiefs were set at their pick, but then on the night of the draft, decide to throw everyone a curve-ball and take someone completely different.
If you missed the draft and didn’t catch the results, here’s the full first round from Day 1 of the 2013 NFL Draft:
No. 1: Kansas City Chiefs- Eric Fisher, Ot, Central Michigan
No. 2: Jacksonville Jaguars- Luke Joeckel, Ot, Texas A&M
No. 3: Miami Dolphina (via Oakland Raiders)- Dion Jordan, Olb/De, Oregon
No. 4: Philadelphia Eagles- Lane Johnson, Ot, Oklahoma
No. 5: Detroit Lions- Ezekial Ansah, De, Brigham Young
No.
It was hard to gauge how the draft was going to go because for the first time in a few years, no pick was a sure lock.
For months, everyone thought the Kansas City Chiefs were set at their pick, but then on the night of the draft, decide to throw everyone a curve-ball and take someone completely different.
If you missed the draft and didn’t catch the results, here’s the full first round from Day 1 of the 2013 NFL Draft:
No. 1: Kansas City Chiefs- Eric Fisher, Ot, Central Michigan
No. 2: Jacksonville Jaguars- Luke Joeckel, Ot, Texas A&M
No. 3: Miami Dolphina (via Oakland Raiders)- Dion Jordan, Olb/De, Oregon
No. 4: Philadelphia Eagles- Lane Johnson, Ot, Oklahoma
No. 5: Detroit Lions- Ezekial Ansah, De, Brigham Young
No.
- 4/26/2013
- by Doug Rush
- Obsessed with Film
For over 20 years, Dan Savage has been dishing out sex and relationship advice to anyone that cares to listen. So when MTV asked him to hit the road and take his hard-hitting advice to college campuses across the U.S., it seemed like a natural fit for the outspoken columnist.
From learning how to build a committed relationship to safely navigating online dating and one night stands, to kinks and fetishes, no topic was off-limits for Savage during the filming of "Savage U." However, that doesn't mean he wasn't shocked by some of the questions he received. University of California, Irvine was especially memorable for the It Gets Better co-creator.
"The questions there blew my mind -- not because they were so crazy or dirty, but because they were so innocent," Savage told HuffPost TV via phone. "It was like getting questions for Archie and Jughead."
On Tuesday night's "Savage U" season finale,...
From learning how to build a committed relationship to safely navigating online dating and one night stands, to kinks and fetishes, no topic was off-limits for Savage during the filming of "Savage U." However, that doesn't mean he wasn't shocked by some of the questions he received. University of California, Irvine was especially memorable for the It Gets Better co-creator.
"The questions there blew my mind -- not because they were so crazy or dirty, but because they were so innocent," Savage told HuffPost TV via phone. "It was like getting questions for Archie and Jughead."
On Tuesday night's "Savage U" season finale,...
- 6/19/2012
- by Crystal Bell
- Huffington Post
Here's something you'll never hear me say about any reality show besides So You Think You Can Dance: I'm sad that the audition episodes are over. The show handles its tryout weeks with gusto, a lot of respect for its competitors, and more celebration than mockery. (Take note, American Idol.) Even host Cat Deeley, who makes only a few short cameos in each audition episode, is wonderfully sympathetic as a contestant interviewer. The fact that she lives an Emmy-less existence is a human injustice. Let's take this crusade to the streets.
As usual, I've got the five best auditions of the week, this time from the Salt Lake City tryouts. Did anyone wear a tabernacle-like hat and jive in tribute to Brigham Young? Did guest judge Adam Shankman weep an entire great salt lake into his diet green tea? Stay tuned for the unsurprising answers.
1. Deanne "Dee" Tomasetta can't make you love her,...
As usual, I've got the five best auditions of the week, this time from the Salt Lake City tryouts. Did anyone wear a tabernacle-like hat and jive in tribute to Brigham Young? Did guest judge Adam Shankman weep an entire great salt lake into his diet green tea? Stay tuned for the unsurprising answers.
1. Deanne "Dee" Tomasetta can't make you love her,...
- 6/14/2012
- by virtel
- The Backlot
One day after tying the knot in Hawaii, Elizabeth Smart flaunted her brand new wedding ring while holding hands with brand new hubby Matthew Gilmour yesterday.This is the first pic of the 24-year-old Brigham Young student since her Saturday wedding at a Mormon temple on Oahu's North Shore.Smart and 22-year-old Gilmour dated for a year ... and were engaged for a month ... before tying the knot. Smart made headlines back in 2002 when, at age...
- 2/20/2012
- by TMZ Staff
- TMZ
Aaron Eckhart stars in "The Rum Diary" with Johnny Depp, but he actually prefers Fyodor Dostoyevsky to Hunter S. Thompson. He grew up in the Church of Latter Day Saints, but has absolutely no opinion on Mitt Romney's candidacy. He's studying to play Beach Boy Dennis Wilson, but claims he can't sing.
The Huffington Post recently discovered these contradictions and more while chatting with Eckhart at the Savannah Film Festival:
You just did "The Rum Diary" with Johnny Depp, who plays writer Hunter S. Thompson. What was he like to work with?
We filmed in Puerto Rico, which wasn't bad, and it was a fun movie because Johnny was so involved. It is his passion project, so everyone on the crew has done six movies with him and it was like filming with his family. I got along really well with him. We had a good time, which I was happy about,...
The Huffington Post recently discovered these contradictions and more while chatting with Eckhart at the Savannah Film Festival:
You just did "The Rum Diary" with Johnny Depp, who plays writer Hunter S. Thompson. What was he like to work with?
We filmed in Puerto Rico, which wasn't bad, and it was a fun movie because Johnny was so involved. It is his passion project, so everyone on the crew has done six movies with him and it was like filming with his family. I got along really well with him. We had a good time, which I was happy about,...
- 11/8/2011
- by Jo Piazza
- Huffington Post
Linda Darnell Linda Darnell on TCM: A Letter To Three Wives, No Way Out Schedule (Et) and synopses from the TCM website: 6:00 Am Zero Hour! (1957) When a flight crew falls ill only man who can land the plane is afraid of flying. Dir: Hall Bartlett. Cast: Dana Andrews, Linda Darnell, Sterling Hayden. Bw-81 mins, Letterbox Format. 7:30 Am Sweet And Low Down (1944) Dir: Archie Mayo. Cast: Benny Goodman, Linda Darnell, Jack Oakie. Bw-76 mins. 9:00 Am Rise And Shine (1941) The college president head cheerleader and a gambling gangster try to keep a flunking football star in the game. Dir: Allan Dwan. Cast: Jack Oakie, George Murphy, Linda Darnell. Bw-88 mins. 10:45 Am Brigham Young (1940) Two young Mormons struggle to survive their people's journey to a new home in the West. Dir: Henry Hathaway. Cast: Tyrone Power, Linda Darnell, Dean Jagger. Bw-113 mins. 12:45 Pm Two Flags West (1950) A bitter...
- 8/27/2011
- by Andre Soares
- Alt Film Guide
A Study in Scarlet, Sir Arthur Conan Doyle's first novel featuring his legendary detective Sherlock Holmes -- which was first published in 1887 -- has been removed from the sixth-grade reading curriculum by the county school board of Albemarle, Va, after voting on it last Thursday for reasons that have attracted controversy to the famed mystery in the past, according to an article at the Los Angeles Times' Nation Now blog.
Doyle's extremely negative portrayal of Mormonism as a religion dominated by those who would commit acts of murder, kidnapping, and enslavement to protect their ideals has long been criticized by followers of the Mormon religion. But according to several sources, including Doyle's own daughter and Levi Edgar Young, a descendant of Mormon leader Brigham Young, Doyle had admitted in the years following the publication of A Study in Scarlet that at the time he wrote it his attitude toward...
Doyle's extremely negative portrayal of Mormonism as a religion dominated by those who would commit acts of murder, kidnapping, and enslavement to protect their ideals has long been criticized by followers of the Mormon religion. But according to several sources, including Doyle's own daughter and Levi Edgar Young, a descendant of Mormon leader Brigham Young, Doyle had admitted in the years following the publication of A Study in Scarlet that at the time he wrote it his attitude toward...
- 8/16/2011
- by Robert Morgan
- Geeks of Doom
They've conquered Broadway, talk radio, the U.S. Senate-and they may win the White House. Walter Kirn on why Mitt Romney and 6 million Mormons have the secret to success, in this week's Newsweek.
Say what you will about him, but Mitt Romney doesn't do, or not do, anything by accident. Take June 2, when the former Massachusetts governor traveled to a quaint farm in Stratham, N.H., to "announce" his foregone conclusion of a 2012 presidential campaign. Romney has to overcome several mountainous challenges before capturing the Republican nomination, and so he spent most of the day trying to reduce them to molehills. To thaw his icy persona, Romney passed out his "famous" family chili and surrounded himself with bales of hay. To account for his moderate governing record, he reminded listeners that the Bay State legislature was "over 85 percent Democrat." And to soften concerns about "Romneycare," he admitted it was "not perfect,...
Say what you will about him, but Mitt Romney doesn't do, or not do, anything by accident. Take June 2, when the former Massachusetts governor traveled to a quaint farm in Stratham, N.H., to "announce" his foregone conclusion of a 2012 presidential campaign. Romney has to overcome several mountainous challenges before capturing the Republican nomination, and so he spent most of the day trying to reduce them to molehills. To thaw his icy persona, Romney passed out his "famous" family chili and surrounded himself with bales of hay. To account for his moderate governing record, he reminded listeners that the Bay State legislature was "over 85 percent Democrat." And to soften concerns about "Romneycare," he admitted it was "not perfect,...
- 6/6/2011
- by Walter Kirn
- The Daily Beast
Sen. Jon Tester hunts, farms, has seven fingers, and could well determine his party's fate in 2012. So why are liberals at his throat?
Jon Tester, United States senator, is face down in the mud. Earlier today, Tester and his wife, Sharla, drove from Great Falls, Mont., to their home, T-Bone Farms, 80 miles northeast. It's a journey the Testers have been making nearly every weekend since Jon joined the Senate in January 2007. As usual, they followed the Teton River through sloping sandstone canyons and out onto a vast expanse of flat, treeless farmland, with only the occasional man-made interruption: the United Grain silos in Kershaw, the Ace High Casino in Loma, a billboard about chewing tobacco. "Quitting Was Tough," it said, "But I'm Tougher." The trip took 80 minutes.
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Not everyone, however, enjoyed such a pleasant drive. After turning down Son Lane,...
Jon Tester, United States senator, is face down in the mud. Earlier today, Tester and his wife, Sharla, drove from Great Falls, Mont., to their home, T-Bone Farms, 80 miles northeast. It's a journey the Testers have been making nearly every weekend since Jon joined the Senate in January 2007. As usual, they followed the Teton River through sloping sandstone canyons and out onto a vast expanse of flat, treeless farmland, with only the occasional man-made interruption: the United Grain silos in Kershaw, the Ace High Casino in Loma, a billboard about chewing tobacco. "Quitting Was Tough," it said, "But I'm Tougher." The trip took 80 minutes.
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Not everyone, however, enjoyed such a pleasant drive. After turning down Son Lane,...
- 5/8/2011
- by Andrew Romano
- The Daily Beast
Buzz Bissinger received a torrent of abuse for saying the NBA's popularity is declining without white superstars. Now comes Jimmer Fredette, who's dominating March Madness chatter not because he's the best-but because he's white.
A couple of weeks ago I wrote a column about the specter of race in the National Basketball Association. I said the league's popularity was being affected because some white fans were turned off to a game in which there was not a single white American superstar.
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It was not pretty. Most of the cuts have healed except for the one on my elbow.
I fervently believe what I wrote. There was supporting evidence I should have put in but did not because a column is an opinion and space isn't unlimited at The Daily Beast. I have since discovered more compelling evidence.
A couple of weeks ago I wrote a column about the specter of race in the National Basketball Association. I said the league's popularity was being affected because some white fans were turned off to a game in which there was not a single white American superstar.
Related story on The Daily Beast: January 10: 7 Best Moments from Sunday Talk
It was not pretty. Most of the cuts have healed except for the one on my elbow.
I fervently believe what I wrote. There was supporting evidence I should have put in but did not because a column is an opinion and space isn't unlimited at The Daily Beast. I have since discovered more compelling evidence.
- 3/23/2011
- by Buzz Bissinger
- The Daily Beast
Raymond Griffith, silent comedian, has fallen into such neglect as to be virtually erased from screen history, it seems. None of his comedy appears to be available on any commercial format, nor ever has been. And much of his work is thought lost forever.
This would be sad even if Griffith were just one of those mustachioed little men falling over in Mack Sennett shorts, filling out a Keystone Kops paddy-wagon or slipping on a banana peal. What makes it tragic is that he was a unique, subtle and subversive talent, not notably like any of his famous contemporaries.
How to describe him? Eschewing the grotesquerie of the typical clown, he was small, trimly-built, and wore a neat, normal mustache. He was almost good-looking, a certain heaviness about the jowls giving him a debauched look which he exploited to his advantage. He had a variety of smiles, most of them...
This would be sad even if Griffith were just one of those mustachioed little men falling over in Mack Sennett shorts, filling out a Keystone Kops paddy-wagon or slipping on a banana peal. What makes it tragic is that he was a unique, subtle and subversive talent, not notably like any of his famous contemporaries.
How to describe him? Eschewing the grotesquerie of the typical clown, he was small, trimly-built, and wore a neat, normal mustache. He was almost good-looking, a certain heaviness about the jowls giving him a debauched look which he exploited to his advantage. He had a variety of smiles, most of them...
- 3/10/2011
- MUBI
Darn you Lisa de Moraes for giving me the unerasable images of Mormon sister wives running around with tiny little hatchets behind their billowing tarp dresses and long braids. More modern polygamists Barb (Jeanne Tripplehorn), Nicki (Chloe Sevigny) and Margene (Ginnifer Goodwin) are about ready to go at each other as familiarity has bred utter contempt between each gal, as husband Bill (Bill Paxton) stoically holds his illegal harem hoarder head up high, ready to take the poly lifestyle out of the closet, damn the modernized Brigham Young torpedoes. Well, as much as I hated "Sister Wives" on Tlc (a real show about polygamy) I love this ridiculous HBO telenovela of wadded-up pious Principle proselytizing, now in its...
- 1/17/2011
- by April MacIntyre
- Monsters and Critics
We have a sneak peek extended scene as well as pics from Lifetime Network's "The 19th Wife" which airs on September 13th. Rod Holcomb directs from the teleplay by Richard Friedenberg based on the New York Times bestseller of the same name written by David Ebershoff. Starring are Chyler Leigh, Matt Czuchry, Patricia Wettig and Jeff Hephner. Executive produced by Barbara Lieberman. “The 19th Wife” takes us inside the secret world of polygamy. Set in present day Mesadale, Utah, Becky Lynn, the “19th Wife” of Sawyer Scott, is accused of coldly murdering her husband. As the chilling murder mystery unfolds, the story flashes back to 1875, as Ann Eliza, the wife of Brigham Young, is expelled...
- 9/10/2010
- Upcoming-Movies.com
Author David Ebershoff has put together one hell of an impressive book here. It's a story of two parts, set in different times. The first is the story of Jordan, who has been excommunicated from a secretive sect of Mormons known as the Firsts and returns home six years later after his mother is imprisoned for murdering his father. The second focuses on Ann Eliza Young, the wife of Brigham Young, one time Prophet of the Mormon church, and her escape from the clutches of polygamy. Both women are wife number 19, and have had to face hardships because of their faith. Jordan initially believes his mother guilty, but soon comes to see things a different way, leading him to investigate what really happened and return to the town that kicked him out.
Ann Eliza tells of her parents and their conversion to Mormonism, and their love of and faith in Joseph Smith and his religion,...
Ann Eliza tells of her parents and their conversion to Mormonism, and their love of and faith in Joseph Smith and his religion,...
- 2/10/2010
- by Dustin Rowles
Sheeee’s ba-ack! I was about ninety-nine percent through Californication Season 3 Episode 5, ready to scream “Filler Episode,” when up pops Karen. That’s right, after four episodes of long-distance flirtatious phone calls, Hank’s soul-mate, Karen, is back in La. Unfortunately for Hank, but fortunate for the drama-lusting fans, Karen’s return couldn’t come at a more inconvenient time. Hank doesn’t have one girl on the side; no, a love triangle would be too easy. Two-side mistresses? Sorry, that’s a walk in the park. Hank is going for a personal record with a love pentagon that would make infamous polygamist Brigham Young jealous. Who’s on Hank’s soiled-sheets roster? At the top of the list we have life-long love and mother of his child, Karen. She’s the point-guard of the team; always reliable, Karen maintains order in Hank’s life of misadventures. Then, we have Jill,...
- 10/27/2009
- by Bags
- BuzzFocus.com
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